American Tech Fellowship - Frontier

A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world's leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. Applications are open through Friday May 15th.

The Program There are no shortcuts to solving hard problems with AI. Those who have lived inside the problem long enough understand its shape — the constraints, the edge cases, the reasons every previous fix fell apart. The lawyer who can't stop thinking about how to optimize the firm's case management process.

The nurse who has watched the same preventable mistake happen too many times. The mechanical or chemical engineer who understands the inefficiencies of the current system better than anyone on the floor. The recent grad who runs circles around their peers and has never once been handed a problem they couldn't figure out.

What these people share isn't a resume, it's an orientation. Their ambition and aptitude has outgrown the room they're in, the organizational inertia has become overbearing, and the tools to solve these problems have never been in their hands. Until now.

ATF Frontier is an eight-week, after-hours program that gives these people the tools to build real solutions using Palantir's Artificial Intelligence Platform. Fellows work toward a capstone project, earn a professional AIP certification, and learn firsthand how Palantir approaches the hardest operational problems in the world. Exceptional performers will earn the opportunity to interview for a role at Palantir or one of our partner companies.

The Role ATF Frontier is an accelerated training program that teaches motivated, intellectually curious people to build on Palantir's Foundry and AIP platforms. You don't need to know how to code on day one. You do need the drive to learn fast, the discipline to show up, and the instinct to ask the right questions.

Over eight weeks, Fellows will learn: How to break down complex, real-world problems and architect solutions using Palantir's AI and data analysis tools The fundamentals of building custom workflows and applications in Foundry and AIP How to communicate what you've built — and why it matters — to the people who need to use it How the best Forward Deployed teams at Palantir think about problems: from first diagnosis to full deployment This program moves fast and doesn't hold hands. That's the point. The goal isn't just to teach a skill set — it's to find the people who thrive when they're thrown in the deep end.

What We’re Looking For We're looking for people whose ambition has quietly outgrown the room they're in. ATF Frontier is built for: Career changers who've spent time inside an industry — healthcare, legal, finance, education, operations, engineering — watching decisions get delayed by fragmented systems, and are done waiting for someone else to fix it. Now they're ready to add a builder's toolkit to everything they already know.

Engineers who've never written a line of software — the mechanical engineer who has spent years optimizing processes on paper and in CAD, the chemical engineer who knows every inefficiency in the plant but can't yet build the tool to fix it, the industrial engineer who has mapped and re-mapped the same broken workflow and is ready to actually automate it Recent graduates from any field — philosophy, economics, history, engineering, biology, you name it — who think rigorously and learn aggressively If you've spent years watching a problem go unsolved and you're ready to be the one who fixes it — you're who we built this for. What We Value Show us how you think and what you're made of. That could look like: A track record of solving messy, unstructured problems — whether that's restructuring a team's operations, building a tool to automate your own job, or writing the analysis that changed how your organization made decisions Communication that makes hard things simple: you've had to explain complex ideas to skeptical audiences and you know how to bring people along Evidence that you learn fast: a new language, a domain pivot, a project where you had to figure it out as you went Intellectual range — you've thought seriously about problems in more than one field, and it shows The ability to sit with ambiguity and move anyway No specific degree or technical background is required.

We're looking for slope, not starting point. What We Require 2+ years of work or educational experience Genuine curiosity and a bias toward action Ability to commit to the full eight-week program: two weeknights per week, plus independent project work (10–15 hours/week total) Authorized to work in the United States of America Program Details Duration: May 26th through July 23rd Format: Live virtual sessions, two weeknights per week; optional sessions and office hours throughout Time commitment: 10–15 hours per week Compensation: This program is unpaid and provides professional training and certification Outcomes: Exceptional performers will be considered for full-time roles at Palantir, which may require a relocation to Palantir office hub, and partner companies.